“Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.”
Simone Weil
“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”
“Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”
Cardinal Richelieu
